Could It Be Forever? My Story by Cassidy David

Author:Cassidy, David [Cassidy, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2012-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

The first song I ever wrote and recorded on my own without anyone’s permission was Ricky’s Tune. I wrote it in about five minutes the day before I was about to go on a tour. Ricky’s Tune is about a wonderful, sad, lost boy who’s saying goodbye to his dog. The dog is a metaphor; it was about saying goodbye to a relationship that I couldn’t have, saying goodbye to someone who didn’t exist, but who I wished could have been there. I closed my eyes and imagined what it would be like to be in love, to be connected with someone. The song just fell out of me. As soon as I wrote it, I decided I was going to record it. I held on to it. I played it a few times on the tour, came back and booked a little eight-track studio. I also recorded two other songs I had written much earlier. I got a few musicians together, went in this little studio and played guitar and sang the demo. Alas, the tape no longer exists.

The Cherish album went gold. It made the charts for 23 weeks (peaking at number 15) from 12 February 1972. The single sold nearly two million units. And I was giving sold-out concerts in the biggest halls, arenas and stadiums in the world, like the Houston Astrodome. The level of success just blew me away. I was swept up in it. To become that famous all over the world was pretty phenomenal. To capture the imagination of a whole generation of people is a difficult thing to do. Very few people have had that kind of impact.

I knew there were some people who hated me as a performer, who viewed me with utter contempt. They were entitled to their feelings. People seemed to either love me or hate me. Fortunately for me, the percentage that did love me loved me a lot. There’s an old saying in the business that if you get one per cent of the population to really love you, you’re the biggest star in the world.

My second album, Rock Me Baby, charted for 17 weeks, peaking at number 41. After Cherish, I had three more solo singles in the charts in 1972: Could It Be Forever?, How Can I Be Sure? and Rock Me Baby.

Rock Me Baby was more of a departure. It was more me. I was becoming more and more difficult to keep under lock and key, in a musical sense. At that time, I was so successful that I finally said, ‘Hey, look, I want to make a record that’s more to my own taste. You guys are making millions of dollars on anything that has my name on it, at least let me do something I like.’

Rock Me Baby is a good pop song that scared the hell out of everybody because I said the words ‘get down’ in it. All of the entities involved in the David Cassidy business thought, Uh oh, he’s being sexually explicit.

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